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...major arguments have always taken place between Congress and the White House, but now special interests also use the courts to nibble at Executive power. Environmentalists filed suit in 1971 to prevent Nixon from conducting an underground nuclear test on Alaska's Amchitka Island. The Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 in the President's favor, but the battle left a bitter residue. Patrick Buchanan, then a White House aide, recalls asking Nixon what he would have done had the court gone against him. The President's angry response: "I was going to fire it anyway." That, perhaps...
Critics of the emerging U.S. policy -- which so far requires AIDS tests of military and foreign service personnel, federal prisoners and immigrants seeking residency -- contend that compulsory screening violates good health tactics as well as privacy rights because it leads people to evade help and sends the disease underground. They note that despite assurances of confidentiality, such promises are regularly breached. Says June Osborn, dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan: "Advertent or accidental public disclosure of positive tests has led to loss of insurance, marriage, family ties and even domicile -- in short, everything necessary...
...introduce society's own problems into the court; the law of the street, becomes the law of the courts. It is not unusual that 12 New Yorkers would take a down-to-earth approach to the law. Subway riders all, they know the fears that come from riding underground, and appeared to think it hypocritical to send someone to jail for overreacting to a position that any subway rider could find himself...
...agree with the comment made by former French Health Minister Simone Veil ((May 18)) that equating Barbie's crimes against the French underground with his other crimes "is the banalization of everything that happened." An atrocity is an atrocity, whether it is the sending of innocent people to death camps or the torture-murder of Jean Moulin, the French Resistance fighter. The lives lost in the death camps should not be elevated to a status above that of Moulin and others murdered by the Nazis. Recognizing Barbie's responsibility for non-Holocaust atrocities in no way trivializes the role...
...long sojourn underground, subsisting on sap in tree rootlets, the cicada nymph passes through five growth stages, or instars, each of which ends with the insect throwing off its carapace. About two months before it is ready to emerge, the nymph tunnels its way upward, lying at the surface and building a protective earthen turret if the ground is too damp. This final rest stop is truly character building: it apparently enables the insect to develop adult claws and flight muscles to help it cope with life aboveground. "Their bodies undergo a major transformation, especially of muscle structure," says Miller...